Excellent points!
Apple needs to seek divorce with AT&T. My company currently utilizes Verizon. On the enterprise level, I don't see any overall price difference between Verizon and AT&T given the number of devices in my org. Having two different carriers is a billing hassle I don't need. The iPhone isn't enough in and of itself to make me want to run out and replace all my phones and wireless cards in the field, install new software and hand out new phones. Not only that, but after extensive testing with vendor donated wireless cards I discovered Verizon had the best coverage (3g or otherwise) in my area. My GIS guy even went through the trouble of making an actual coverage map using the cards and some various home brew ESRI extensions.
I also agree on the apple store bit. We have a few custom GIS apps that run on windows mobile clients. It is very specialized and can't be made available to other organizations for security reasons. Well it could be, if the developer removed some of the custom bits and features that make it so appealing to my organization. Maybe they should start an iCorporateStore for such things? The developer could just enter usernames that should have access to their apps and it would still be seamless to the enduser. I would imagine Apple would make the developer buy into such a thing and pay fees for publishing apps.
